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                                                            "It
                                                              is no dream,"
                                                              he said, "no
                                                              dream." 
                                                              And he bowed his
                                                              face upon his
                                                              hands' ...
                                                              A troubled
                                                              insomniac in
                                                              1890's England
                                                              falls suddenly
                                                              into a sleep-like
                                                              trance, from which
                                                              he does not awake
                                                              for over two
                                                              hundred
                                                              years. 
                                                              During his
                                                              centuries of
                                                              slumber, however,
                                                              investments are
                                                              made that make him
                                                              the richest and
                                                              most powerful man
                                                              on earth. 
                                                              But when he comes
                                                              out of his trance
                                                              he is horrified to
                                                              discover that the
                                                              money accumulated
                                                              in his name is
                                                              being used to
                                                              maintain a
                                                              hierarchical
                                                              society in which
                                                              most people are
                                                              poor and
                                                              enslaved. 
                                                              Oppressed and
                                                              uneducated, the
                                                              masses cling
                                                              desperately to one
                                                              dream - that the
                                                              sleeper will
                                                              awake, and lead
                                                              them all to
                                                              freedom.  |